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Smooth SAP Operation

The Problem Organizations spend significant resources on the maintenance and control of SAP operations

but with little or no outcome.

COMPLEXITY Given the complexity of SAP deployments, ensuring business continuity is difficult to achieve

COST Existing solutions/methodologies are expensive and cumbersome to deploy, use & maintain

IMMATURITY

Immaturity of next gen. cloud based applications leaves a gap in a field of monitoring and control

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The Challenge Ensuring business continuity by providing real-time, mission critical insights to the right

person at the right time, pinpointing the problem.

TOO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT SPENT Organizations spend substantial resources on maintenance and control of their SAP operations

PEOPLE EXPECT REAL-TIME, CONTEXTUAL DATA Continuous frustration from all levels of users, due to the lack of business monitoring in real-time

HIDDEN BOTTLENECKS ARE SLOWING DOWN THE BUSINESS

Inefficiencies in critical business points are a common thing. The challenge is to know, how to find them


SaaS Monitoring Platform 4C™ Monitoring and Analytics platform enables SAP

Enterprise customers, administrators and business

users to monitor, control and optimize SAP operations

in a quick and efficient way.

4C™ is the first SaaS self-service solution for SAP

business and technical monitoring and analysis

available to all users - no technical skills required.

Benefits Critical info to the right person at the right time

Up and running in 60 minutes

Easy to use

Low TCO

Constant self-improvement via Crowd Wisdom


Accessible anywhere via any device

Supports all SAP environments

The Solution


Artificial Purchase Order split

2 Purchase Orders approved by creator

Do you control potentially harmful SAP procurement events?

Its easy with 4C™ ! Catch these Top 10 misconducts online:

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3 Retroactively created Purchase Orders

4 Purchase Order amount for one-time Vendor is too high

6 Requisition vs. Order prices comparison

7 Payment Terms of Vendors vs. Payment Terms in Invoice

8 Purchase Order amount for one-time Vendor is too high

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Compare Material prices for different Vendors

10 Purchase Orders are failed to be printed/sent to the Vendor

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Purchase Orders waiting for approval for too long

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MM risk mitigation

and much more…

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Extremely high sale discounts

2 Exceptionally high credit notes

Want to know if there is potential or real misbehavior running

in your SAP Sales? Catch these Top 10 misconducts online with 4C™:

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3 Suspicious merchandise returns

4 Exceptionally high compensations

6 Delivery of goods is blocked

7 Goods are delivered but not billed

8 Proof of delivery is not confirmed

5

Documents are not posted to Financial system (FI)

Currencies update failed or didn’t occur 9

Unauthorized changes in vendor’s bank details

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SD risk mitigation

and much more…

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Sensitive SAP transactions entry

2 Inactive valid users (didn’t enter SAP for a more than XX days)

Want to control your SAP user activities and save money by removing redundant users? Catch and analyze online with 4C™:

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3 Users having sensitive (e.g. SAP_ALL) profiles

4 Inactive / Active users being logged on for too long

6 User creators control

7 Users profiles control

8 Locked users list

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Users who entered wrong password (XX times)

Users password state 9

Logged on users list

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USAGE user management

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No-Value data from the InfoCubes

2 No-Value data from DSO Change Logs

Migrating your SAP BW to HANA? Use 4C™ to shrink

BW database. In just 1 hour 4C™ will help to identify and remove:

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3 No-Value data from DSO Active Tables

4 No-Value data from Master Data Tables

6 Not-Compressed requests in InfoCubes 5 No-Value data from PSA tables

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BW housekeeping

7 DSO objects with redundant SID generation

8 Unused (junk) Bex queries


Requests with Partially Loaded Data Targets

2 Long time running Process Chains

Save hours on your daily SAP BW routines, using 4C™ BW

library with more than 80 operative checks. Proactively

track and catch real-time events such as:

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3 Scheduled Process Chains that didn’t start

4 Green requests unavailable for reporting

6 Too large/too small data transfers 5 The BW Productive system was opened for changes

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BW operative checks

and much more…

Deactivated Transformations

8 Deactivated Transfer / Update Rules

Not Rolled Up InfoCubes

Change Runs being stuck 9

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https://skywind.com/sap-bw-alert-functions-2/


Critical business documents that failed to print

2 Critical technical documents that failed to print

Do you rely heavily on SAP printing? Decrease the TCO of your

SAP printing operations with 4C™ Printing Analysis pack. Catch online:

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3 Problematic output devices (printers)

4 Consistently or randomly failing output devices (printers)

6 Number of printed pages as per print is higher than XX

7 Same documents were printed for more than XX times

5 Print spools that waiting to be printed for too long

PRINT painkillers

printing analysis


Jobs control

2 IDOCS control

Do you want to control your SAP infrastructure online?

Stay informed having all this information in your pocket on the go:

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3 Dumps control

4 Transports control

6 System Status control

7 Work Processes control

8 Application Locks control

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Update Requests control

User Activities control

9

SOST Messages control

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BASIS infrastructure

and much more…

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https://skywind.com/system-basis-alert-functions-new/


XI/PI Messages Flow

2 IDOCs State and Content

Do you control data that flows in and out of your SAP systems? Use 4C™ Interfaces Control library to monitor these Top 10 events:

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3 SapConnect: Send Requests (SOST)

4 SAP Application Log Analysis

6 Ping RFC Connection

7 qRFC – Inbound / Outbound

8 RFC Creators Control

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Background Jobs Control

System / FTP Files Control

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tRFC Monitoring

BASIS painkillers

interfaces

and much more…

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https://skywind.com/system-basis-alert-functions-new/

Advantages

SAVES MONEY

by tracking

preventing and

predicting failures

SAVES TIME

by helping to solve

incidents faster and

with less effort

SELF SERVICE

governed self-service and independent work mode

WORLDWIDE ACCESS

instant secured access for critical data from any place on the planet

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1 hour setup to Go Live

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NO SOFTWARE

NO HARDWARE

NO INSTALLATION

NO IMPLEMENTATION

Competition


4C™ Other Solutions

TCO LOW HIGH

Implementation Simple, Out-Of-The-Box Complicated (expert needed)

Time to deploy and run Up and running in 60 minutes Weeks to months

Maintenance No maintenance Full maintenance

EASE OF USE INTUITIVE CUMBERSOME

Accessibility From anywhere Internal or via VPN

Devices Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Mobile Desktop, Laptop

Interface Intuitive and friendly Technically oriented

ARCHITECTURE SAAS ON PREMISE

Infrastructure No Hardware Dedicated hardware

Installation Near zero footprint Full installation

Upgrades No upgrades Upgrades

ALERTING CONTENT CROWD WISDOM BASED ON PREMISE LIMITED

Smooth SAP Operation
